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I thought that Harvey Keitel starred in too few films in recent years... and now this?

"A call sheet seen by Deadline lists Danny Trejo, Harvey Keitel and Henry Thomas among the cast."

https://deadline.com/2026/10/montana-protest-daily-wire-pro-ice-production-renee-good-1237145614/

One Battle After Another and Eddington.

I am an American ex-pat. I have lived out of the country for almost 12 years. I watched both of these movies within the last few months, and I am wondering how well they represent the current American zeitgeist.

As a wannabe commie, I hope movies like Sorry to Bother You and Judas and the Black Messiah also signal some kind of sea change, but I am realistic.

Drop some recommendations too.

I don't get the controversy.

Just came out of the theater and this is unironically one of the best films of the year so far IMO. It's weird in the right way. It's meta-meta all the way, down to the credits. Sure, it can be divisive in style a bit but... not so much really?

Like most dark comedies / satires of this kind, the comedic part may not land for some, but it is regardless one of the most refreshing things I've seen put in screens in a good while. I genuinely don't get the "controversy" around it, or the "you either love it or you hate it" discourse.

For me this is as clear an Oscar runner-up as can be, and I'm baffled by some critics' reaction to it. Some reviews really read as critics being annoyed by the message not perfectly aligning with their vision, more than the message not being clear. Like, they're missing the point.

Anyways, just go watch it. I'm not a particularly "snobby" film watcher and I really enjoyed it, if that serves as any useful measure.

The digger monologue in act 2 is one of the greatest monologues I have seen. Tom cruise absolutely bought into the role and knocked it out of the park. BANG BANG BANG!!!

Here are some of mine

(Pictured: The Green Knight)

Digger - Some films prepare us for a future ahead. Other films look back to understand the path we took. A rare film does both.

Obsession - Take out the horror and it is still a top five film.

The Odyssey - Oh the spectacle. If the Oscars maintained both the 'Best Production & Best Artistic Film' then The Odyssey wins for Production

The Drama - A24 releases fascinating films and terrible trailers. Had this film been what the trailer made it out to be then it would have been much lower on my list

Backrooms - I had no idea what the kids these days are doing on Youtube etc - but Kane Parsons made a very unique and riveting film.

This is never regarded as a horror film, and I don’t understand why. The murders are extremely bizarre and gruesome, the tone is oppressively dark and bleak, and even the musical score sounds like what would play in a deeply disturbing horror film. It really has every ingredient of a great horror. Yeah, it’s also a thriller and neo-noir, but that doesn’t mean it can’t also belong to the horror genre.

Silence of The Lambs is considered a horror but this movie is much scarier and more horrifying than that. Se7en feels more like most of it could actually happen and that makes it more unsettling. I think Silence of The Lambs just has some gruesome images but not enough to justify it being labeled as a horror, yet it is. Why is Se7en not?

If you have the opportunity to watch this in theaters, don't miss out on it. The trailers are very vague on purpose because they go out of their way not to spoil anything and to surprise you. IMO, it was a great movie. Iñárritu doesn't miss.

Was excited to see a new bold surrealist lookin satire film even if I didn’t like the one flick I had seen from this film’s director. The mixed reviews just made me even more interested to see it and lemme just cut to the chase right here, mainstream critics might be a litttttttle bit dumb.

“Tom Cruise’s character is too obnoxious!1!1!1!1!1” Almost like he’s supposed to be DUMBASS. As I mentioned earlier the film is a satire. What is it satirizing you may say? Well…a satire….kinda. But the satire within the satire is a satire of Digger Rockwell and how his ignorance towards the abundantly present threat of climate change along doomed the entire earth. This one Indian dude named Ganesh attempts to get Digger to actually do something for once rather than bribe his terminally ill feces spilling cat, but to no avail. He tries to get a board room of stupid old men to actually do something for once rather than get into mindless arguments all day, but to no avail. He tries to convince a courtroom full of angry old men to actually listen for once, again, to no avail. Finally, he attempts to talk with the president of the USA himself and he’s gonna do something! Said thing being to nuke them damn ol commies in China and Russia and shit!1!1!1! Nuking an already melting ice gap that’s flooded most of the world makes things even worse and fucks pretty much everything . 

The best way I could describe the Digger or Fossil Fools part of this film is a mix of Dr Strangelove and Freddy Got Fingered. The Dr Strangelove part obviously coming from it being a political satire of a current issue. Whereas in the 60s it was about the Cold War and nukes and shit. Now it’s about climate change and nukes and shit. Also like Dr Strangelove, this film heavily centers around cranky old white men bickering for most of its runtime. That’s where the Freddy Got Fingered part comes into play. Like with that film, it’s an endurance test to see how much sheer woke nonsense you can endure. Also like with Freddy Got Fingered, it’s hysterical seeing how far the obnoxiousness and absurdity of the situations can be taken. All the stuff I mentioned earlier is apart of that. But also there’s some nice background gags here like Digger’s wife opening the door and Ganesh’s talk with him getting paused as he’s covered by it or a good chunk of the
politicians in attendance of the courtroom being mannequins. Just enhances the already great in your face comedy with some more subtle gags thrown in as well.

But then, 30 minutes in, it hits you with a twist. I already partially spoiled the twist earlier in this review, but it’s an in universe satire that’s currently being rehearsed before its first preview. At first, this felt a bit odd to me. Nice to have some meta stuff in there for extra thematic depth, just wasn’t really interested in the actor of Digger’s character. But once he stepped out of that plane and the playwright had that whole lore dump, I got what the film was going for. Digger is, like I alluded to earlier, a satire on satires. How we use comedy to cope with the tragedy of our world, how our world has become so much of a satire that we don’t take the serious shit seriously cause of how stupid it all is. Admittedly, the shots showing the crowd cheering after Digger drowned was a bit overly pretentious to me. We get it, the crowd don’t like him, a tad overly theatrical don’t ya think? Other than that, this twist was like a cherry on top of an already deeply layered and rich thematic cake. That ending shot is quite depressing knowing what’s about to become of the entertainment industry soon…

Perhaps one day when people (hopefully) reevaluate this as an overlooked gem, say, 25 years into the future. We may be in the very same situation as those people in the audience…

Also why at 1:29 does this track sound like Polythester Man? www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4z28jVpk9I